"delete all" songs with exclamation point.???? Too many to delete seperatly

how do i delete all the songs that don't work?(all the ones with the exclamation point). there are several hundreds of them in my library, so it would take forever to delete them individually.

You can get rid of dead tracks by a nifty use of playlists:
Using a playlist to collect dead tracks.
Create new regular playlist – Playlist1
Select whole library and drag to Playlist1
Create new Smart Playlist with the rule: Playlist is not Playlist1
This playlist should contain all the dead tracks
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5696793#5696793
Or you could use Robert Jacobson's script iTunesremovenotfound
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/

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